While Startuply seems to be doing OK, other job boards have been seeing a decline in jobs. Joblighted, an online job aggregator, has reported its statistics, showing a clear decline in job listings. As I noted, Startuply is only one player this entire ecosystem, and it’ll be great to see data on others as well.

Joblighted aggregates some of the biggest job boards, such as KropJobs, 37 Signals Jobs, CrunchBoard. While, there roughly 65 jobs posted per day pack in July, now there are roughly 35 jobs posted per day in October. That’s a 46% drop. Moreover, $4,902,859 spent were spent on 22,704 job listings. That translates to about $216 per post. The creator of Joblighted has also noted that, “in the last few weeks my subscriber counts went up at much higher rate than they used to,” meaning an increase in people looking for jobs. Unemployment is at 6.1% right now, and I really don’t want it to go higher.

On a side note, a lot of big blogs have been making good side money with their job boards. With advertising falling and job postings declining, maybe we will see a few more angry bloggers on the rise.

Below is a pie of Joblighted’s top sources:

1. Krop Jobs 439319.3%
2. 37signals Job Board 341715.1%
3. Joel on Software Jobs 291812.9%
4. CrunchBoard 269611.9%
5. TechGigger Jobs 15196.7%
6. Startuply 14696.5%
7. Authentic Jobs Full-time 12655.6%
8. Slashdot Jobs 11705.2%
9. Python Job Board 7893.5%
10. Coroflot Jobs 7273.2%
11. VentureBeat JobBoard 4401.9%
12. FreshWebJobs 4081.8%
13. Ajaxian Jobs 3571.6%
14. MetaFilter Jobs 2571.1%
15. JavaScript Ninja Jobs 2030.9%
16. Ars Technica Job Board 1910.8%
17. Smashing Jobs 1600.7%
18. Read/WriteWeb Jobs 1470.6%
19. nPost Startup Jobs 1270.6%
20. Jobs on the Wall 280.1%
21. Boxes & Arrows Job Board 230.1%

These statistics is mainly for startup jobs. Other big names such as Indeed, Simplyhired, and Monster, would be interesting to look for bigger companies. One crucial site that seems to be missing is Craigslist jobs. That would be really interesting since it covers across all industries.

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